• 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... Read More »
  • Two Seniors Housing Sales Close

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage is continuing on its hot streak this month, closing two additional deals in Alabama and Florida. In the Alabama transaction, Dan Geraghty and Brad Clousing represented a large national owner/operator that was resizing its portfolio to concentrate on its core market. So, the company divested an assisted... Read More »
  • Selectis Health Exits Georgia

    Selectis Health, Inc. has completed its exit from Georgia with the help of Michael Segal and Daniel Waldhorn of Blueprint. In the beginning of the year, Selectis Health divested Providence of Sparta Health and Rehab and Warrenton Health and Rehab to Journey, also with the help of Segal and Waldhorn (more on that deal can be found here). The... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Divests Third Class-A Asset

    Caddis Partners and Singerman Real Estate have divested another seniors housing community, Heartis Fayetteville. This comes shortly after the joint venture’s sale of Heartis Venice and Heartis Longview. Ross Sanders, Dave Fasano, Cody Tremper and Mike Garbers of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare represented the seller in all three... Read More »
  • Bonds Issued for Independent Living Expansion

    Ziegler closed John Knox Village’s $47.85 million Series 2026A, B-1, B-2 and B-3 bonds issued through the City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri. John Knox Village (JKV), a Missouri not-for-profit corporation, is a CCRC consisting of 1,038 independent living units, 180 assisted living units and 121 skilled nursing beds. This transaction marks JKV’s... Read More »
Southern California CCRC Refinances and Expands with Truist Financing

Southern California CCRC Refinances and Expands with Truist Financing

To support the refinance and expansion of a not-for-profit CCRC in southern California, Truist Financial Corporation announced that it served as the sole lender of a $42.4 million loan. Originally developed in 1947, the community has grown on its 50-acre campus in La Verne, California to include 226 independent living units, 48 assisted living units, 24 memory care units and 59 licensed skilled nursing beds.   However, Brethren Hillcrest Homes, Inc., the owner associated with the Church of the Brethren, will expand the community by adding 14 independent, one-floor cottage and duplex units, consisting of 24,000 square feet on a 1.4-acre parcel. Each home will feature an attached two-car... Read More »
New Jersey SNF Gets HUD Refinance

New Jersey SNF Gets HUD Refinance

Cambridge Realty Capital Companies secured a HUD refinance for a 102-bed skilled nursing facility in Madison, New Jersey. Previously owned by Extended Care Clinical, the facility last sold in 2016 for $8.3 million, or $81,400 per bed, to a family owner/operator.   Built in 1947 with 102 beds in two stories, the facility provides both short- and long-term care, with a subacute rehab center in a separate wing. Services range from orthopedic and trauma care to stroke, cardiac, tracheostomy and wound care. There are also on-site EKG’s, lab services and bladder scans. It is located across the street from Drew University and about three miles from Morristown Memorial Hospital.  Cambridge... Read More »
Ziegler Secures Large Bond Financing for Texas Project

Ziegler Secures Large Bond Financing for Texas Project

Ziegler announced a large bond financing to fund the development of a not-for-profit senior living community in Fort Worth, Texas. The sponsor, Methodist Retirement Communities (MRC), will add 172 independent living, 40 assisted living and 24 memory care units to its portfolio with the project, which is set on about 19 acres in Tavolo Park, a new master-planned commercial and residential community in southwest Fort Worth.   MRC also brought in Greystone to act as development consultant and operator for the community until the end of the second fiscal year after it achieves stabilized occupancy. Thereafter, MRC will assume management of the... Read More »
M&T Realty Finances Virginia Acquisition

M&T Realty Finances Virginia Acquisition

M&T Realty Capital Corp. secured financing to support Irvine, California-based Avanath Capital Management’s acquisition of an affordable senior apartment community in Sterling, Viriginia (Washington, D.C. MSA). Developed in 2001 with low-income housing tax credits, the 150-unit community was previously owned by a private local investor. Set in a desirable location and featuring a quality physical plant, the community was apparently financially stable.  Emerging from several potential buyers, Avanath purchased the community for $27.2 million, or $181,300 per unit. Henry Mathies and Fletcher Hultman of Greysteel’s East Coast Affordable Housing... Read More »
People on the Move

People on the Move

Don Kelly, formerly of CapitalSource Healthcare Finance but more recently a Senior Managing Director at MONTICELLOAM, has joined Locust Point Capital as Managing Director. He will be responsible for loan originations and structuring at the asset management firm, which focuses on direct lending to the lower middle market in seniors housing and care. Mr. Kelly has experience originating, structuring and underwriting approximately $5 billion in transactions across his career, which should help in his goal of expanding Locust Point’s market reach and product offerings in the lending market.  Mr. Kelly also has operating company experience, formerly working as an Executive Vice President at... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group’s End of Summer Sprint

Meridian Capital Group’s End of Summer Sprint

Meridian Capital Group’s seniors housing and healthcare team is sprinting to the end of summer, with over $160 million in transactions closed in the last two weeks alone. September has been noticeably slower than even previous months, so to get that amount of transaction volume across the finish line is impressive.  Managing Directors Ari Adlerstein and Ari Dobkin, along with Senior Vice President Josh Simpson, first arranged a $47.8 million loan from a finance company, plus a $3 million A/R line to refinance two skilled nursing facilities with 328 total beds in New Jersey.   The trio also secured a $30.2 million acquisition loan to fund the purchase of a CCRC in Florida... Read More »